Lost amid the money propping up Tuesday’s unveiling were the nitty-gritty details of spurring investment by educating the private sector – a logistical shift to help scale up a sector of the US economy big on ideas but short on funding

A sea of glass panels may soon be sprawling across a paddock in Queensland’s Darling Downs cranking out two gigawatts of energy – 100 times more than the largest solar farm in Australia today – and a former top flight barrister is the unusual shining light behind its development